A nun breaks music record

News :: 2006

By Lobsang Wangyal

MCLEOD GANJ, India, 30 July 2006 It will be a first of its kind. First that a set of five albums based on Buddhist chants and themes will be released, and then that these will be albums of a Tibetan Buddhist nun!

Ani (nun) Tsering Wangmo has an exceptional voice. As a Tibetan Buddhist nun her goal is to promote the Buddha Dharma in music form through her voice. The revenue she receives will be used to continue this work and some will be contributed for other social causes.

The set of four albums, in the "World music" genre, will be titled "Immeasurable Joy", "Immeasurable Loving Kindness", "Immeasurable Compassion", and "Gyaling", the fifth album, "Immeasurable Equanimity," is a very traditional Dudjom Rinpoche�s Thr�ma Nagmo. They will be launched in India and the US in August, and distributed around the world later.

Tenzin Dawa, who released his debut album "One day" (though in pop genre) in January this year, directed the music for Ani's albums. The success of his album had him reproduce it for a second edition. "One day" is out again with a new album cover, with him sporting a red Traditional Tibetan shirt.

All the profits made by the sale of these CDs will be donated to three causes — the Ewam Magadha Garden of 1000 Buddhas, currently being built in Arlee, Montana, a Tibetan medical clinic in Tibet, and the Yuloko Jetsun Ling Nunnery in Nepal.

Ani Tsering Wangmo was born in Lhasa, Tibet. She became a nun at the age of twelve. After fleeing Tibet in 1991 and arriving in Nepal, she joined the Yuloko Jetsun Ling Nunnery in Yanglash�e. Upon completing the traditional three-year retreat in 1996, she began and continues to work on the Ewam Pecha (religious text) project — collecting and digitising the pechas for Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche of Ewam.

Currently, she resides at Ewam Sang-ngag Ling in Montana where she has learned English. She continues to support Rinpoche�s many worldwide projects.

Ani Tsering Wangmo produced her first album "Turquoise Leaf" in 2000, which was recorded in the US. It was in the traditional Tibetan chant genre, and based on the Buddhist chants from nunnery. The album was well received in the US.

In 2004, she recorded the "Laughter of the Dakinis", based on Longchen Nyingthig Ch�e practice.

Ani Tsering Wangmo:
Ewam USA